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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 10, 2026Airbus Helicopters Deutschland MBB-BK117 D-3
N2NK is an Airbus Helicopters Deutschland MBB-BK117 D-3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2023. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Air Base LLC, an LLC in Jupiter, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 8, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated November 10, 2023.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Airbus Helicopters Deutschland
- Model
- MBB-BK117 D-3 · all MBB-BK117 D-3s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium with composite partsA mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. Composite rotor blades; composite fuselage shells on the newer designs. This is how the Airbus Helicopters MBB-BK117 D-3 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 21199
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurboshaftFAA type of engine code 3 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Safran ARRIEL 2E · 894 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 2023
- Transponder code
- A18E87 (octal 50307207)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 8, 2023
- Expires
- December 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- December 8, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 10, 2023
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01416177
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Air Base LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 4741 Military Trl Ste 202
Jupiter, FL 33458-4842
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N2NK links to the rest of the register
- Airbus Helicopters MBB-BK117 D-3 94 registered
- Airbus Helicopters Deutschland 155 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Safran ARRIEL 2E 97 aircraft with this engine series · 894 hp
- Type certificate H13EU · held by Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GMBH (Ahd)
- Air Base LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Jupiter, FL 190 aircraft registered in this town
- Florida 21,705 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Airbus Helicopters MBB-BK117 D-3 21 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Airbus Helicopters MBB-BK117 D-3 35 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Safran ARRIEL 2E 5 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N2NK, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Air Base LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 8, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated November 10, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 21199 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2NK was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Kensinger N H K-2 (serial NK2, cancelled September 6, 2012). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N2NK. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data